When Palin is incoherent and bizarre, people call her refreshing.
When Obama makes a mistake, everyone makes jokes about the teleprompter.
I guess it helps to have a smile and nice tits; all is forgiven.
That is how an acolyte normally thinks. To her acolytes, Joan of Arc can do no wrong. That is why if the stunt of reading the palm while giving the answer to easy questions backfires (and it very well may), the acolytes are likely to blame the interviewer, who asked the questions and 'made' her to look at her palm.